Once upon a time, if you had something to say, you said it.
Or typed it.
Short, clear, done.
Then came the voice note 🙄
And everything changed.
Today, to say “ok,” you receive a 2-minute, 18-second audio file.
It starts with an intro, detours into a life update, mentions the weather, includes three sighs, and ends with “anyway, yeah, that was it.”
A masterpiece of nothing 😂
— complete with background noise, a cough, a distant horn, and the voice fading out because “wait I’m going upstairs.”
📱 Voice notes are the new coffee break
Let’s be honest: voice notes are convenient.
Quicker than typing. More direct. More “human,” they say.....
And sometimes, they really are.
A voice message can be warm, spontaneous, personal.
It can make you feel closer. More real.
It can even (brace yourself) contain a thought.
The problem is when it turns into the digital equivalent of talking a lot… without actually saying anything.
It’s the new-age blah blah.
But hands-free.
🎯 What do we usually hear in voice notes?
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“Hold on, let me move…”
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“So yeah, but maybe not, I mean… I don’t know.”
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“Anyway it’s nothing really, don’t worry…”
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“I’ll explain it better later, I’m driving right now.”
And in the end, you replay it three times trying to figure out if there was an actual message, or just a stream of consciousness with a mic on.
💡 But hey… voice notes aren’t the enemy
The real issue is lazy communication.
The kind where you dump thoughts, not connect.
We send voice notes like tossing mental clutter into a shared inbox.
“Here, take this. You figure it out.”
No filter, no structure, and definitely no concern for whether the other person has time (or energy) to decode it.
But there’s good news:
It takes very little to communicate better.
A clearer message. A more present tone.
Or even… a pause. Yes, even in voice notes. It’s free. And it works.
✨ Wrap-up (with no audio attached)
Voice notes aren’t evil.
They’re just a tool.
And like any tool — it depends on how you use it.
You can send two minutes of empty noise…
or thirty seconds that actually matter.
Your call.
(Or better yet — your unsend button.)
Silvia 😉
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